Environment swept aside by economic forces

Laws enacted to protect the environment – which they were only permitted to do marginally anyway – are being swept aside, François Legault calling the bureaucracy that administers such rules a camisole de force – a straitjacket, which he wants to abandon – and Mark Carney equally prepared to steamroller environmental concerns as at Contrecœur to keep the wheels of industry turning.

Nobody in power wants to remember that the economy is a fiction, while the ecology is a fact. You can’t make fiction more important than fact forever. Fact will come back to burn you or drown you or starve you to death – if not you, your kids or your grandchildren.